Review

The works and artists included in this exhibition create a compelling thesis on the specific art historical influences, cultural confluences, and aesthetics of this west Texas city.

When is art profoundly true and when is it functioning as a propaganda device? And is there a hierarchy in art to which we should acquiesce?

This is the third post in a series of zine roundups where I pull some zines from my library — some old, some new, some from Texas and some from abroad — and give you the lowdown on who created them and what they’re about.

One of the reasons to get lost in his photographs is because of their luxuriously reflective qualities.

The collective M12's publications are profound and expansive meditations on various interconnections of rural American life.

Leissner shot some 3,500 rolls of film of '80s Austin, artfully documenting the city’s tribal beat, performing arts, and body politic.

I think Arp’s works are intimidatingly simple. They look so much like Modern Art, generally, that a viewer may take them almost as cliché, and not stop to consider what's going on within the works. But just by looking, it is possible to understand what Arp is trying to get across.

Here Hewitt asserts an oft-overlooked concurrence: the civil rights era and minimalism.

Simmons’ work spans decades now, and reverberates with the politics of feminism and Simmons’ poignant and focused scrutiny of gender roles — both from intentional observations, and as a result of politics catching up to her photographs.

This show serves as a reminder that the ancient and eternal axis mundi can become available anywhere we choose to excavate it.

The works in the exhibition swing like a pendulum between internal perceptions and the acknowledgment of external ones. 

Parker's show is a wealth of deeply considered ideas about communication, vulnerability, violence, power, and authority.

My friend summed it up succinctly by stating: “There’s no Vegas here.” 

A massive group show in two San Antonio venues, curator Risa Puleo assembles a dazzling array of artists living or having histories in the corridor of the Monarch’s path.

'Selected Writings by Dick Higgins' ain’t everything that Dick wrote, but it’s the cream of the crop. If you’re looking for a crash course on 1960’s experimental art straight from the horse’s mouth, this would be a heck of a start.

"What does it mean that these images of small-town America are often read specifically as the South?"

Feulmer's work here brings together the cultural impact of 'Star Wars,' the earliest forms of writing in history, and the role of museums in defining value systems.

Here lies a narrative of loss, identity, resilience, and vulnerability, that many will find relatable to their own personal stories.

The show delivers up a mystical sensibility cloaked in the guise of the ordinary.

"...if the museum is the repository for all society values, how is the prison the repository for all society seeks to disown?”